50 Cent Vitaminwater equity story
by Freddenver: 50 Cent
50 Cent revealed that he turned down $5,000,000 in cash for equity in Vitaminwater, and ended up making $100,000,000 when Coca-Cola bought the company. He also discussed how Reebok lost the bidding war for LeBron James because Nike secured a deal with him for $120,000,000, noting that Reebok had $80,000,000 sitting there. He added, 'Them you don’t have to #LeBronJames #Reebok
Transcript (en)
But when RBK lost, when they lost the bidding war for LeBron, because Nike ended up making a deal with him for $120 million, they had $80 million sitting there and Paul Feynman decided to do lifestyle branding with myself, Jay-Z, and Daddy Yankee. and I just kept coming back for money every three months I kept saying to him look I'm a high-risk investment yo it's going good I'm a high-risk investment yo we're doing so good how many shoes we sell I'm a high-risk investment and I kept living with the money I was like yo you know I just don't want you to be in a in a bad spot you know I might say the wrong thing and then everything just be fucked up. Then I start telling them the stuff that my publicist told me, right? Cause she told me two things you don't say. You don't say nothing about religion and you stay away from politics, right? Cause no matter what your beliefs are someone passionately disagrees with you. All right, so you don't, you just stay away from that. And then if you don't believe she was correct all you have to do is ask her.
